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by michalu 3y ago
Beowulf is not among "foundations of Western Civilization" that's a wild statement.
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by michalu 3y ago
I regret posting it.
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by michalu 3y ago
To be fair Paris has huge problem with too many cars. I'd close the center entirely.
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by michalu 3y ago
To be honest we're moving out of France. I don't see much future in this country if you have a family unless you go to somewhere like Auvergne where there's less jobs, mostly farming and these guys are getting decimated and c
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by michalu 3y ago
As a person with SUV and big family in Paris, I suggest we do the same with obese people and public transport - now that my kids will need to use it more frequently while paying more for sq ft.
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by michalu 3y ago
Was one of the first 500k users on Quora and loved it. Had a chance to get education and knowledge from top VCs and entrepreneurs directly. Even showed up on some meetups in London. Even was a published author with Inc, business Insider etc
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Ex-CIA Coder Who Sent Secrets to WikiLeaks Gets 40 Years(fortune.com)
43 points by michalu 3y ago|18 comments
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by michalu 3y ago
Just dug up my old invite code to find this is pretty bad. Basically an app for the small obscure minority who left Twitter in protest including a bunch of ex users you'd only know from memes. Curious to see what this evolves into.
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by michalu 3y ago
One of the most impactful things I've read was in the interview by Donald Knuth, shared here on HN some time ago: "A person’s success in life is determined by having a high minimum, not a high maximum. If you can do something real
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Ask HN: Best Gift Ideas for Christmas?
3 points by michalu 3y ago|0 comments
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by michalu 3y ago
It's mostly US spying on everyone else, especially their "allies" ...
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by michalu 3y ago
He worked at McKinsey before 2004 and only for a short time. Consulting must be the hardest sin to forgive in the tech world :)
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by michalu 3y ago
Odyssey by Homer (just finished) Master and Margarita by Bulgakov (just finished) In the Shadow of the Sword by Tom Holland Started by quit: Aeneid by Virgil (too much of Roman propaganda) Catch 22 by Heller (had it on the list because of r
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by michalu 3y ago
Does it count if you're ancestor of one of the black slave owners? E.g. this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ellison ? just curious.
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by michalu 3y ago
There's actually 1000+ people named James Bond so it's likely. Although fathers are the biggest liars - mine told me he swam across the ocean.
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Ask HN: What are some top ChatGPT “pro tips” you've discovered lately?
1 points by michalu 3y ago|0 comments
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Parmesan cheese makers embedding edible microchips in their products(fortune.com)
2 points by michalu 3y ago|1 comments
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by michalu 3y ago
I remember about 12-14 years ago I was deciding between learning Python vs. Groovy. I didn't know anything about programming then and for some reason at that particular point all articles/advice I found were saying the future is e
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by michalu 3y ago
I'm sharing what worked for me. I tried your method too but ran into same issues and for me I just wanted caffeine out of my life asap. The headache is bad indeed.
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by michalu 3y ago
Most experiments in science rely on correlation in controlled environment. To prove something entirely true you'd have to control all variables in the universe. As for theoretical science well a lot of it is just a choice of faith. Jus
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by michalu 3y ago
*Swiss water method. It's basically healthier version of decaf as most are decaffeinated using some chemical processes (so I learned) ... this one is without chemical use, completely natural. Tastes great too. I agree with that too. It
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by michalu 3y ago
FYI the church fathers explicitly say it should be taken literally. I don't know what's "modern church" does the faith change according to developments of science? Then it has never been true. Saying that as a christian.
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Ask HN: What are your favourite obscure/less known books?
6 points by michalu 3y ago|2 comments
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by michalu 3y ago
No "everyone has an agenda" doesn't mean disagrees with me. This is history, it has alwaus been used tp push agenda by sone historians and it's easily verifiable and quite obvious if you study the topic without bias.
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by michalu 3y ago
Timothy Snyder may be entertaining in lecturing history but he is spreading lies and has an agenda. Anyone who knows the topic deeply will find it obvious and easy to prove. There were numerous fabrications on wikipedia lately that linked t
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Ask HN: If you quit your computer job, which non-computer craft would you pick
45 points by michalu 3y ago|107 comments
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by michalu 3y ago
Mollers by any chance? Would be bottled cod liver oil.
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by michalu 3y ago
Good riddance for Utah. Evil company that ruined lives of many people both users and the "actors" Also super pathetic to be a user of this - watching pixels to fool your brain to release dopamine to get even more pleasure than wha
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by michalu 3y ago
Which brand of fish oil did you use?
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by michalu 3y ago
Sorry to be inquisitive, I'm genuinely curious to understand. What drives you to improve chances of humanity to survive? What if it survives but the societal format will be totalitarian? What if the existence will be meaningless ... so

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